Signior Antonio, many a time and oftIn the Rialto you have rated me...About my moneys and my usances.Still have I borne it with a patient shrug(For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The only human beings I have thoroughly admired and respected in the world have been those who carried the load of the world with ...a smile, and who, in the face of anxieties that would have knocked me clean out, never showed a tremor. Such men and women end by owning us, soul and body, and our allegiance can never be shaken. We are only too glad to be owned. Religion is nothing but this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The wind came briskly up this way,Crisping the brook beside the road;...Then, pausing here, set down its loadOf pine-scents, and shook listlesslyTwo petals from that wild-rose tree.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of w...ork except the planning and organizing skills and habit patterns needed to operate in complex settings. Many intelligent and able college students from low-income backgrounds confront these deficits when faced with a heavy assignment load. . . . These patterns are best acquired at an early age and need to be quite well developed by late elementary school or twelve or thirteen years of age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Rich are the sea-gods:Mwho gives gifts but they?They grope the sea for pearls, but more than pearls:...They pluck Force thence, and give it to the wise.Every wave is wealth to Daedalus,Wealth to the cunning artist who can workThis matchless strength. Where shall he find, O waves!A load your Atlas shoulders cannot lift?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centr...e of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Vivian Rutledge: Speaking of horses, I like to play them myself. I like to see them work out a little first. See if they're front ...runners or come from behind.Philip Marlowe: Find out mine?Vivian Rutledge: I think so.Philip Marlowe: Go ahead.Vivian Rutledge: I'd say you don't like to be rated. You like to get in front, open up a lead, take a little breather in the back stretch, and, then, come home free.Philip Marlowe: You don't like to be rated yourself.Vivian Rutledge: I haven't met anyone yet that could do it. Any suggestions?Philip Marlowe: I can't tell till I've seen you over a distance of ground. You've got a touch of class, but I don't know how ... how far you can go.Vivian Rutledge: A lot depends on who's in the saddle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »